Hurple

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An impediment similar to a limp. Scotland

    "After he sprained his ankle, he walked away with a hurple."

Verb
  1. 1
    To shrug up the neck and creep along the streets with a shivering sensation of cold, as an ill-clad person may do on a winter's morning. England

    "Goas hurpling abart fit to give a body t'dithers to luke at him! - The Dialect of Leeds, 1862"

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"Goas hurpling abart fit to give a body t'dithers to luke at him! - The Dialect of Leeds, 1862"

Etymology

A word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Scots hirple (“to limp”) or Dutch hurken (“to squat”), plus the suffix -le.

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